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  • Health reforms penalize some Indians

    When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in Northern California’s wine country that covers all her medical needs.

    May 15, 2013

  • Pennsylvania abortion doctor gets third life sentence

    A Philadelphia abortion doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby he described as so big it could “walk to the bus.”

    May 15, 2013

  • For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it’s personal

    When Gov. Mark Dayton adds his signature to the bill legalizing gay marriage in Minnesota later Tuesday, its two main sponsors will stand triumphantly beside him admiring the fruits of their long and often demoralizing struggle for gay rights.

    May 14, 2013

  • Angelina Jolie-Mastec.jpg Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy

    Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.

    May 14, 2013 1 Photo

  • Wind Energy Eagle Deaths 2.jpg Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

    It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America’s green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm’s spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.

    May 14, 2013 3 Photos

  • Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

    The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

    May 13, 2013

  • Philly abortion doctor guilty in 3 babies’ deaths

    A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over abortion.

    May 13, 2013

  • NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak

    Two astronauts will do a spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system at the International Space Station.

    May 10, 2013

  • Obama declared health care law ’is here to stay’

    Caught between nervous Democrats and emboldened Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped up the sales pitch on his health care overhaul as the final elements of his top domestic achievement go into effect.

    May 10, 2013

  • Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion

    Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

    May 10, 2013